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BOOST MISSOURI 

AND THE 
*'CALL OF THE FARM" 



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PRELUDE TO THE 1913 RED BOOK 
PUBUSHED BY THE 

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 

JNO. T. FITZPATRICK, Commissioner 

JEFFERSON CITY, MO. 



BULLETIN FOKM 



"BOOST MISSOURI" 

AND THE 

"CALL OF THE FARM" 



A Small Pamphlet Which Gives Information Relating 

to the Work the Bureau of Labor Statistics has 

Undertaken During 1913-14-15 to Widely 

and Favorably Make Know^n the 

Resources, Advantages and 

Opportunities of Missouri 







. fREPARED AND PUBLISHED BY THE 

^ <•" BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 

JNO. T. FITZPATRICK, Commissioner 

A. T. EDMONSTON, Supervisor of Statistics 

H. P. REEDS I r„ Ji?cciL».c !■ J- L. BRADLEY 
/ Commissioners ) 

JEFFERSON CITY, MO. 



A Prelude in Bulletin Form. 



THE HUGH STEPHENS PRINTIXG COMPANY 

JEFFERSON CITY, MO. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



1. — Map of Missouri. 

2. — State to Publish Booster Pamphlet. 

3. — "Boost Missouri'— All Commercial Clubs and Business Mens 

Leagues Interested. 
4. — "The Call of the Farm.'' 

— A Republication with Revisions. 

5. — Agricultural Possibilities of Missouri. 

—The Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jefferson City, Mo. 

6. — Opportunities in Missouri for Agricultural Settlers. 

—By Prof. F. B. Mumford, Dean State Agricultural College. 

7. — General Treatise on the. Agricultural Possibilities of Missouri, Its 
Inducements and Annual Achievements of Its Farms. 

—By Hon. W. L. Nelson, Assistant Secretary State Board of Agriculture. 

8. — State Free Employment Department of Missouri, Its Object. 



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FEDERAL 



Agricultural Statistics, Missouri 



Farms and Farm Property; 1 
Cost of Operating Farms; 



TABLE A. 

Population 

Number of farms 

Color and nativity of farm- 
ers: 

Native white ...... i.^ 

Foreign-born white. ... 
Negro and other nonwhito. . . 
Number of farms, classibed 
by size: 

Under 3 acres 

3 to 9 acre.s 

10 to 19 acres 

20 to 49 acres 

50 to 99 acres 

100 to 174 acres 

175 to 259 acres 

260 to 499 acres 

500 to 999 acres 

1,000 acres and over. ; 



3,293,335 
277,244 



259,111 

14,467 

3,666 



455 

8,561 

10,740 

47,398 

74,178 

SO , 020 

32,109 

19,812 

3,427 

544 



LAND AND FARM AREA. ACRES. 

Approximate land area, acres. . . 13 . 985 , 2S0 

I^and in farms, acres 34,591,248 

Improved land in farms, acres. . 24 , 581 , 186 

Wood land in farms, acres 8,918,972 

Other unimproved land in farms, 

acres 1,091,090 

Per cent of land area in farms. . 78 . 6 

Per cent of farm land improved 71.1 

Average acres per farm 124.8 

Average improved acres per 

farm 88 . 7 

VALUE OF FARM PROPERTY. 

All farm property $2,052,917,4SS 

Land .$1,445,982,389 

Buildings S270 , 221 , 997 

Implements and machinery. . $50,873,994 
Domestic animals, poultry 

and bees $285 , 839 , 108 

Per cent of value of all prop- 
erty In — 

Land 70 . 4 

Buildings 13.2 

Implements and machinery. . 2.5 
Domestic animals, poultry 

and bees 13.9 

Average values: 

All property, per farm $7,405 

Land and buildings, per farm $6,190 

Land per acre $4 1 . 80 

DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 

(Farms and Ranges.) 

Farms reporting domestic ani- i 

mals 270 ,b37 

Value of domestic animals $273,366,662 

Cattle: 

Total number 2,561,482 

Dairy cows 856,430 

' Other cows 306,681 

Yearling heifers 306,951 

Calves 296,475 

Yearling steers ami bull.',. . 299, 160 

Other steers and bulls 495,785 

Value $72,883,664 

Horses: 

Total number 1 ,073,387 

Mature horses 932 , 269 

Yearling colts 103,615 

Spring colts 37,. 503 

Value *1 13.976,563 

Mules: 

Total number 342,700 

Mature mules 265,601 

Yearling colts 57,7.50 

Spring colts 19,349 

Value $43,438,702 

Asses and burros: 

Numbci- 12,877 

Value .?3, 053, 873 

Total number 4,438,194 

Mature hogs .. 2,800,281 

Spring pigs. ... 1,637,913 

Value .. $31,937,573 



Sheep: 

Total number ] ,811,268 

Rams, ewes and wethers. . . 1 , 116, 189 

Spring lambs , . . . 695,079 

Value $7,888,878 

Goats: 

Number 72.415 

Value $187 ,409 

POULTRY AND BEES. 

Number of poultry of all kinds . 20 , 897 , 208 

Value $11,870,972 

Number of colonies of bees .... 203 . 569 

Value $584 , 549 



TABLE B. 

FARMS OPERATED BY OWNERS. 

Number of farms 192,285 

Per cent of all farms 69.4 

Land in farms, acres 25. 1S9.241 

Improved land in farms, acres 17 . 694 . 543 

Value of land and buildings . . . $1 , 206 , 020 . 845 

Degree of ownership: 

Farms consisting of owned 

land only 152,807 

Farms consisting of owned 

and hired land 39,478 

Color and nativity of owners: 

Native white 177,620 

Foreign-born white 12,556 

Negro and other non white. . . 2 , 109 

FARMS OPERATED BY TENANTS. 

Number of farms S2 ,9.58 

Per rent of all farms 29 . 9 

Land in farms, acres 8.772, 162 

Improved land in farms, acres 6,489,931 

Value of land and buildings . . . $469,821 ,561 

Form of tenancy : 

Share tenants 46,744 

Share-cash tenants 8,553 

Cash tenants 24,461 

Tenure not specified 3,200 

Color and nativity of tenants: 

Native white 79,609 

Foreign-born white 1,833 

Negro and other nonwhitc. . . 1 ,516 

FARMS OPERATED BY MANAGERS. 

Number of farms 2,001 

Land in farms, acres 629,845 

Improved land in farms, acres 396,712 

Value of land and buildings. . . . $40,361 ,980 

MORTGAGE DEBT REPORTS. 

For all farms operated by 
owners: 

Number free from mortgage 

debt 102,514 

Number with mortgage debt . 88 ,486 

Number with no mortgage re- 
port 1 , 285 

For farms consisting o f 
owned land only: 

Number reporting debt and 

amount 64 ,02.s 

\'ahie of their land and build- 
ings $38tt.l76,0OO 

.V mount of mortgage debt. . . $112,565,403 

Per cent of value of land and 

buiUlings 28.9 



TABLE C. 

COST OF OPERATING FARMS. 

Labor. . . Farms rei)orting . . . 120,7)4 

Cash expended $14,970,(>35 

Koni and board fur- 
nished $3,674,060 

Fertilizer . Farms reporting. ... IS . 43 1 

Amount expended . . $671 ,073 

Feed Farms reporting. ... 110.416 

Amount expended. . $17,148,008 
Receipts from sale of feed- 
able crops $20,077,983 



■pOUIiTRY QUEBI* • ■OB'.'.THB-' tTNION" 



Products 
Missouri 
Holds 
Higli 
Rank for 



Map of Missouri 

ioia-iJ:-i5 

Givlnft Conntr Outlines, Chiaf Bailroada, 
Conn«y Seal*. Leadintt Citiaa and Rivera 

Published by the 

State Bureau of Labor Statistics 

JNO. T. mZPATRiaC, Commissioner 

A. T. EDMONSTON, Supm-isor of Statistics 

«-P- REEL'S Kon^'b^Lrsl J- L. BRADLEY 

JEFFERSON QTY, MO. 



H >> .A.-I«A 



''Boost Missouri" 




BOOTS AND SHOESiiTO 

WALNUT LUMBER 

FIRE CLAY 

CORN 

WHEAT 

HORSES AND MULES 

WATERMELONS 

STRAWBERRIES 

TOMATOES i .; 

BIG RED APPLES Ti.i) 

ELBERTA PEACHES, . 
FLOUR. FEED, MEIAL 
COOPERAGE 
PACKING HOUSE PRODUCTS 

MALT LIQUORS (BEER) 

STREET AND RAILWAY CARS 

SMALL FRUITS 

BRICK AND TILING 

CANNED GOODS 

LIVE STOCK 

FROGS. FRESH WATER FISH 

NURSERY PRODUCTS 

SYCAMORE LUMBER": - 

RAILROAD TIES i^'^ 

SAND AND GRAVEL.ji.., 

GLASS 

NATURAL MINERAL WATERS 

MUSHROOMS 

RED GUM LUMBER 

HONEY AND BEESWAX 

GRANITE AND OTHER 

BUILDING ST^ONE 

CEMENT ' 
PEARL BUTTONS 



WHAT MISSOURI 
LEADS IN 

Poultry and Egga 

Zino Ore 

Lead Ore 

Cobalt 

Nickel 

Barytes 

Plug Tobacco 

Cadmium 

Corncob Pipes 

Tripoli 

Red Gum 

Cooperage 



Tiri'Tiiiti ! 



Missouri maintains a Free Employ- 
ment Department. Gratuitous S^Vicei 
given to all. 



Farm Help and Timl^er^ij^u supplied ; 
situations furnished without charge; 
write to the nearest Free Employment 
Bureau. l',; 



ST. LOUIS 104 N. Tfenth St., F. J. O'KecIe. 

Superintendent. , 

KANSAS CITY -224 New Nelson BIdg.. 

Harvey Osborne. Superintendent. 
ST. JOSEPH— 110 N. Seventh St., Geo- J. 

Kamler, Superbntendeiit. 

« M >ii { i I ' li I I iti !■«• 'I " 






FEDERAL 



Agricultural Statistics, Missouri 



Farms and Farm Property; Live Stock; Principal Crops; Production of and Value; ( 
Cost of Operating Farms; Domestic Animals not on Farms; Number and Value. \ 



THE FIGURES GIVEN ARE BASED 
ON THE FEDERAL CENSUS OF 1910. 



TABLE A. 

Poynlation 

Numlter of farms. ■ ■ 

Color and natlvit}' of farm- 
ers: 

Native wliitc 

Korelgn-born white 

•Negro and other nonwhito. 
^iliinDer of farms, classlhed 
by size: 
Under 3 acreB. . 

;$ to 9 acres 

10 to 19 acres. . 
20 to 49 acres . . 
."iO to 99 acres ... 

100 to 174 acres 

1 7.5 to 259 acres 

2«<) to 499 acres 

.'ioo to 999 acres 

1,0(X) acros and ovoists 



a, 293, »;}.") 

^ ^77 ,244 

259.111 

14.407 
3,600 



4.55 

.S..561 

1(),740 

4 7,. 398 

74, 178 

SO , 020 

:i2 . 109 

19.812 

;{,427 

514 



LAND AND FARM AREA. ACRES. 

Approximate land area, acres. . . \.i . 985 . 280 

I -and in farms, acres :i4 ..591 ,248 

Improved land in farins. acres.. 24.581,186 

Wood land in farms, acn-s 8,918,974. 

()( her unimproved land in farms, 

acres 1,091.090 

Per cent of land area in farms. . 78 . 6 

Per cent of farm land improved 71.1 

Average acres per farm 124. s 

Average improved acres per 

farm 



88. 



VALUE OF FARM PROPERTY. 



Ail farm property $2, 052 

Land $1,445 

lUiildfng.i S270 

Implements and machinery. . $50 
Domestic animals, poultry 

and bees $285 

Per cent of value of all prop- 
erty In-T- '-' -» 

Land .^ . . ^. 

lUiildings . " 

Implements and machinery. . 
Domestic animals, poultry 

and beos 

Average values: 

All property, per farrm 

Land and buildings, per farm 
Land per acre 

DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



,917,488 
, 982 , 389 
,221,997 
,873,994 

839,108 



70.4 
13.2 



13.0 

$7,405 
$6, 190 

$41.80 



(Farms and Ranges.) 



I'arms reporting domestic ani- 
mals 

Value of domestic animals 

Cattle: 

Total number 
Dairy cows 
other cow ^ 



:iii<l l>ul 
Other si curs aud bulli>. . 

\ alue . i > . , 

Horses: 

Total number. . . 
Mature horses . 
Yearling colts. 
Spring colts 

Value 

Mules: 

Total number . 
Mature mulos. . . 
Yearling colts. . 
Spring colts. . . 

Value 

Asses and burros: 

N'umbcr 

Value 

Swine: 

Total number . 
Mature hogs. . 

Spring pigs 

\ alue.. 



270,037 
$273,366,662 

2,561,482 
856 , 430 
306,681 
306,951 
290,475 
299, 100 
495 , 785 
.$72,883,664 

1 ,073,387 

932 , 209 

103,615 

37.603 

! 13,976,563 

342 , 700 

205,601 

57,750 

19,349 

$43,438,702 

12,S77 
^.J, 053, 873 

4,438.194 

2,800,281 

1,637,913 

$31,937,573 



Sheep: , .„.^ 

Total number 1 "'1','A'fftO 

Rams, ewes and wethers 1 •i»vi2o 

Spring lambs ,- Sob sts 

Value ?' ,888.87^ 

Goats: „„ .,r. 

Number... „./,2'TAi 

Value $1.87,409 

POULTRY AND BEES. 

N umber of poultry of all kinds . 20 . 897 , 20S 

Value.. *^1'SZ!,*?«Q 

Number of colonies of bees. . . • '^.•'i.){ 

Value «.5,S4,549 



TABLE B. 
FARMS OPERATED BY OWNERS. 

Number of farms ^'"^'^ro^'I 

Per cent of all farms ,ofj ?ii 

Land in farms, acres -'''iJ^'?' k^t 

Improved land in farms, acres 1' •"•'^•o^r 

Value of land and buildings. . . $1 ,206,020.84o 

Degree of ownership: 

Farms consisting of owned 

land only 152,807 

Farms con.sisting of owned 

and hired land .59,478 

Color and nativity of owners: _ 

Nat i ve white 1 ' 7 . b^" 

Foreign-born white ^i fno 

Negro and other non white. . . - • lOJ 

FARMS OPERATED BY TENANTS. 

Number of farms '^^,in'''n 

Per cent of all farms _ 29.. > 

Land in farms, acres 8 ,772 , 162 

Improved land in farms, acres 6,489,931 

Value of land and buildings. . . $409,821 ,561 

Form of tenancy : 

Share tenants 46,744 

Share-cash tenants 8,553 

Cash tenants 24,461 

Tenure not specified 3,200 

Color and nativity of tenants: 

Native white 79,609 

Koreign-born white 1 ,833 

Ne^ro and other nonwliito. . . 1 ,516 

FARMS OPERATED BY MANAGERS. 

Number of farms 2,001 

Land in farms, acres 029,845 

lniprov((d land in farms, acres 396,712 

Value of land and buildings $40,361 ,980 

MORTGAGE DEBT REPORTS. 

For all farms operated by 
owners: 

Number free from mortgage 

debt 102,514 

Number with mortgage debt. 88,486 

Ntmiber with no mortgage re- 
port 1,285 

For farms consisting o f 
owned land only: 

Number reporting debt and 

amount ' 64 , 028 

A alue of their land and build- - 

ings -«.*89,476,000 

.\nu)unt of mortgage debt. . . $112,565,403 

i'cr cent of value of land and 

building.s 2s . 9 

P^ - 

— — TABLE C. 
COST OF OPERATING FARMS. 
Labor. . . . Farms reporting ... 120,714 
,. -,, Cash expended $14,970,635 
■ Rent and hoard fur- 
nished. $3,674,000 

Fertilizer . Farms reporting. ... is . 434 

A moimt expended. . $671 ()7{ 

Feed Farms reporting. . . . Uo!4ig 

Amount expended . . $17,148 008 
Receipts from sale of feed- 
able crops S20,077 ,983 



TABLED. 

LIVE STOCK PRODUCTS. 

Dairy Products. 

Dairy cows on farms reporting 

dairy products, number 770,045 

i-»airy cows on farms reportiuK 
,,?""« produced, number 730 , 503 

-MUk — Produced, gallons |s.s,297,972 

Sold, gallons . 15,733,185 

J- ream sold, gallons 1 ,.399.989 

"Utter fat sold, pounds 4.927,383 

nutter — Produced, pounds . 42. 105. 143 

Sold, pounds 14.046,771 

cneese — Produced, pounds. . . . 159,785 

xr„i . '^^^^' pounds 104 .539 

\ aiue of dairy products exelud- 
mg home use of milk and 

^, cream $13,086,318 

Keceipts from sale of dairv prod- 
ucts $8,187,856 

Poultry Products. 

Poultry — Raised, numl)er 29,. ^80. 192 

Sold, number . 10,056,882 

''-ggs — Produced, dozens 104 , 185 , 1 19 

Sold, dozens 71,886,145 

V alue of poultry and eggs pro- 

duced $31,669,494 

iteceipts from sale of poultry 

and eggs. " $18,285,980 

Honey and Wax. 

Honey produced, pounds 2 . 105 .815 

Wax produced, pounds 23,784 

Value of honey and wax pro- 
duced $274 , 174 

Wool. Mohair and Goat Hair. 

Wool, fleeces shorn, number.. . . 968,321 

Mohair and goat hair, fleeces 

shorn, number 24 ,061 

Value of wool and mohair pro- 
duced $1,650,479 

DOMESTIC ANIMALS SOLD OR 
SLAUGHTERED. 

Calves — Sold or slaughtered, 

number 203 . is i 

Other cattle — Sold or slaugh- 
tered, number l ,332,813 

Horses, mules, asses and burros 
—Sold, number 278,337 

S w i n e — Sold or slaughtered, 

number 5,374,746 

Sheep and goats — Sold o r 
slaughtered, number 916,679 

Receipts from sale of animals . . $ 1 43 . U67 , 066 

Value of animals slaughtered. . . $15 , 272 , 156 



TABLE E. 

VALUE OF ALL CROPS. 

Total $220, 

Cereals $147, 

Other grains and seeds $1 , 

Hay and forage $33 , 

Vegetables $13 , 

Fruits and nuts "... $8 , 

All other crops $15, 

SELECTED CROPS. 
(Acres and Quantity.) 
Cereals: 

Total acres . 10, 

bushels. 246, 

Corn acres. . . 7 , 

ibushcls. 191 , 

Oats I acres ... 1 , 

"^''^ ^bushels. 24, 

Wheat /a<'-"- , .,2. 

Emmer and spelt. .. fa 

Barle.v 

, • I .^ . 

^y® .busiiels. 

Kafir corn and milo /acres. . . 
maize ^ • • • Ibushels. 



663 . 724 
980,414 
153,007 
845 , 094 
305 , 829 
872,688 
506,692 



256.476 
786,298 
113,953 
427,087 
073,325 
828,501 
017,128 
837 . 429 
7,935 
104 , .540 
7,915 
1.34,253 

20,001 
205, 8 LS 

13,543 
228,386 



Other grains and seeds: 

Dry peas /acres. ; . - .s. 23 ,030 

\bushcls. 109,357 

Flaxseed /acres ... 20 , 630 

\busbcls. 154,532 
Hay and forage: 

Total /acres, f (.28,348 

\tons. . . 1 .091,342 

All tame or cultivat- [acres. . . 3 , 231 , 054 

ed gra.s.ses Itons. . . . 3,560,501 

Timothy alone /acres. . . , 1 ,260,896 

Itons. . . 1 ,334,556 

Timothy and clover /acres. . . 1,504,055 

mixed \tons. . . 1,630.211 

Clover alone /acres. . . 202,622 

\ tons . . . 309 , 20«) 

Alfalfa /acres. . . 35 . 478 

itons. . . 96,105 
Millet or Hungarian /acres ..J . m 115,907 

grass ItOHS. V. ># -^tlil ,686 

OtTier tame or culti-/al;PBe. : . ^ •■ - ■ 52,696 

vated gras.ses. . . . Itons. . . 48,794 

Wild, salt or prairie /acres. . . 142.922 

grasses Itons. . . 102,099 

CJralns cut green. . . . /acres. . . 89,315 

\tons . . . 94 . 236 

C'oarse forage I acres. . . 164.434 

Itons. . . 274,308 
Special crops: 

Potatoes /acres. . . 90 ,259 

1 bushels. , 7,796,410 

Sweet potatoes and [acres .. .' 7,938 

yams \bushels. 876,234 

Tobacco . . ■ acres . . 5 , 438 

pounds. 0,372.738 

Cotton . . acres 96 , 527 

I bales . 54,498 

Cane, sorghum iacres. . . 45,088 

tons. . . 201,206 

Syrup (made), gallons 1 ,788,391 

All other vegetables, acres.. 129,570 

FRUITS AND NUTS. 
Orchard fruits: 

Total (trees. . . 23,128,107 

bushels. 11,957,399 

Apples (trees. . 14,359.673 

\ bushels / 9,968,977 

Peaches and necta- ) trees. . . 0,588,034 

rines bushels. 1 ,484,548 

Pears 'trees. . 006,973 

1 bushels. 142,547 

Plums and prunes. . (trees. . . 917,851 

\bushels. 234,872 

Cherries /trees. . 622,332 

I bushels. 123,314 

Grapes /vines.. . 3,026,526 

(pounds. 17,871,816 
Small fruits: 

Total /acres. . . 17.009 

Iquarts.. 23,696,221 

Strawberries [acres. . . 9,048 

Iquarts.. 15,171,0.34 

Blackberries and/acres... 5,975 

dewberries (quarts.. 0,391 ,209 

Nuts [trees. . . 153,244 

Ipotmds. 2,823,368 

TABLE F. 

DOMESTIC ANIMALS NOT ON 
FARMS. 

luclosures reporting 85,637 

Value of domestic animals $20,814,834 

Cattle: 

Total number 75,941 

Value $2,720,956 

Number of dairy cows. . . . 54,218 

Horses: ~ aua ♦ -» ^ ^ . 

Total number. ..',.. : *^.*. . A ^'^« - 132,068 

Value $14,919,261 

Number of mature horses. . 1 29 , 024 

Mules, asses and burros: 

Total number 1 .5 955 

Value. 375,957 

Number of mature muii 14 , 473 

Swine: 

Total numbet'. ..... 78 , 557 

Value $686,954 

Sheep and goats: 

Total number. 19,272 

Value $111,706 



l,ive Stock; Principal Crops; Production of and Value; 
Domestic Animals not on Farms; Number and Value. 



\ THE FIGURES GIVEN ARE BASED 
'] ON THE FEDERAL CENSUS OF 1910. 



TABLE D. 

LIVE STOCK PRODUCTS. 

Dairy Products. 

Dairy cows on farms reporting 

dairy products, number. .... 776,615 

Dairy cows on farms reporting 

milk produced, number 730 , 503 

Milk — Produced, gallons 188,297,972 

Sold, gallons 15,733,185 

Cream sold, gaUons 1 ,399,989 

Butter fat sold, pounds 4 , 927 , 383 

Butter — Produced, pounds 42 , 105 , 143 

Sold, pounds 14,646,771 

Cheese — Produced, pounds .... 159 , 785 

Sold, pounds 104,539 

Value of dairy products e.xclud- 
ing home use of milk and 
cream $13 , 085 ,318 

Receipts from sale of dairy prod- 
ucts $8,187,856 

Poultry Products. 

Poultry— Raised, number 29 , 880 , 192 

Sold, number 10,656,882 

Eggs — Produced, dozens 104,185,119 

Sold, dozens 71,886,145 

Value of poultry and eggs pro- 
duced .$31,669,494 

Receipts from sale of poultry 

and eggs. $18,285,980 

Honey and Wax. 

Honey produced, pounds 2,105,815 

Wax produced, pounds 23,784 

Value of honey and wax pro- 
duced .S274,174 

Wool. Mohair and Goat Hair. 

Wool, fleeces shorn, number.. . . 908,321 

Mohair and goat hair, fleeces 

shorn, number 24 ,061 

Value of wool and mohair pro- 
duced $1 .650,479 

DOMESTIC ANIMALS SOLD OR 
SLAUGHTERED. 

Calves — ^Sold or slaughtered, 

number 203 , 48 1 

Other cattle — Sold or slaugh- 
tered, number 1 ,332,813 

Horses, mules, asses and burros 

—Sold, number 278,337 

S w i n e — Sold or slaughtered, 

number 5 , 374 , 746 

Sheep and goats — Sold o r 

slaughtered, number 916,679 

Receipts from sale of animals . . $ 1 43 , 967 , 066 

Value of animals slaughtered ... $15 , 272 , 156 



TABLE E. 

VALUE OF ALL CROPS. 

Total $220,663,724 

Cereals $147,980,414 

Other grains and seeds .$1,153,007 

Hay and forage $33 ,845 ,094 

Vegetables $13,305,829 

Fruit.s and nuts $8,872,688 

All other crops $15,506,692 

SELECTED CROPS. 
(Acres and Quantity.) 

Total' (acres. . . 10,255,476 

Uiushels. 246,786,298 

Corn i' acres ... 7,113, 953 

\bushels. 191,427,087 

Oats (acres. . . 1,073,325 

\bushels. 24,828,501 

Wheat (acres. . . 2,017,128 

ibushels. 29,837,429 

Emmer and spelt. . . /acres. . . 7,935 

Ibushels. 104,540 

Barley /acres. . . 7,915 

Ibushels. 134,253 

Rye /acres. . . 20,001 

Ibushels. 205,813 

Kafir corn and milo /acres. . . 13,543 

maize ibushels. 228,386 



Other grains and seeds: 

Dry peas /acres . . . 

Ibushels. 
Flaxseed /acres . . . 

Ibushels. 
Hay and lorage: 

Total /acres. . . 

(tons. . . 
All tame or cultivab- /acres. . . 

ed grasses \ tons . . . 

Timothy alone /acres . . . 

\tons. . . 
Timothy and clover /acres . . . 

mixed Uons . . . 

Clover alone /acres . . . 

Itons. . . 
Alfalfa /acres . . . 

\tons. . . 
Millet or Hungarian ! acres . . . 

grass I tons . . . 

Otlier tame or culti- 'acres. . . 

vated grasses .... \ tons . . . 

Wild, salt or prairie [acres. . . 

grasses Itons. . . 

C; rains cut green. . . . /acres. . . 

jtons. . . 
Coarse forage /acres . . . 

[tons. . . 
Special crops: 

Potatoes /acres. . . 

Ibushels. 
Sweet potatoes andfacres... 

yams \bushels. 

Tobacco I acres . . . 

\pounds . 
Cotton I acres . . . 

j bales. . . 
Cane, sorghum /acres. . . 

\tons. . . 

Syrup (made), gallons 

All other vegetables, acres . . 

FRUITS AND NUTS. 
Orchard fruits: 

Total /trees. . . 

Ibushels. 

Apples ftrees. . . 

ibushels.^ 
Peaches and nucla- /trees. . . 

rines Ibushels. 

Pears ftrees . . . 

Ibushels. 

Plums and prunes. . /trees. . . 

Ibushels. 

Cherries /trees. . . 

mushels. 

Grapes /vines. . . 

[pounds. 
Small fruits: 

Total /acres . . . 

Iquarts. . 

Strawberries /acres . . . 

Iquarts. . 
Blackberries and /acres . . . 

dewberries Iquarts.. 

Nuts /trees. . . 

[pounds. 



23,036 
109,357 

20 , 630 
154,532 



3 , 628 

1,091 

3,231 

3,560 

1,260 

1,334 

1,504 

1,630 

262 

309 

35 

96 

115 

141 

52 

48 

142 

162 

89 

94 

164 

274 



,348 
,342 
,654 
,501 
,896 
,556 
,055 
,211 
,622 
,209 
,478 
,105 
,907 
,626 
,696 
,794 
,922 
,099 
,315 
,236 
,434 
,308 



96 , 259 

,796,410 

7,938 

876,234 

5,433 

,372,738 

96,527 

54 , 498 

45 , 088 

201,206 

,788,391 

129,570 



23,128 

11,957 

14,359 

9,968 

6,588 

1,484 

606 

142 

917 

234 

622 

123 

3,026 

17,871 



,107 
,399 
,673 
,977 
,034 
,548 
,973 
,547 
,851 
,872 
,332 
,314 
,526 
,816 



17.009 

23.696,221 

9,048 

15.171,034 

5,975 

0,391,209 

153,244 

2,823,368 



TABLE F. 

DOMESTIC ANIMALS NOT ON 
FARMS. 

Inolosures reporting 85,637 

Value of domestic animals $20,814,834 

Cattle: 

Total number 75,941 

Value $2,720,956 

Number of dairy cows. . . . 54,218 

Horses: 

Total number 132,068 

Value $14,919,261 

Number of mature horses. . 129,024 

Mules, asses and burros: 

Total number 15,955 

Value $2,375,957 

Number of mature mules . . 14 , 473 

Swine: 

Total number 78 , 557 

Value $686,954 

Sheep and goats: 

Total nxmiber 19 , 272 

Value $111,706 



STATE WILL ISSUE BOOSTER PAMPHLET 



Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics is Gathering 
Data For Elaborate Publication. 



TO ADVERTISE THE STATE'S RESOURCES 



Copies Are to Be Distributed at Panama-Pacific Exposition, 
San Francisco, 



(From St. Louis Republic, under Jefferson 
City date line of May 10, 1913.) 

Information is being gathered by 
the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 
a special publication, profusely illus- 
trated, to be known as the "Missouri 
Booster Pamphlet," which is to ex- 
ploit the advantages and opportuni- 
ties each county offers to desirable 
settlers, capitalists and manufactur- 
ers. 

Circular letters are being sent every 
commercial, financial, industrial and 
manufacturing league or association 
in the State inviting their co-opera- 
tion in the work of widely advertis- 
ing Missouri and asking their assist- 
ance in securing the information 
which is to go into the pamphlet. 
Farmers' organizations tliroughout 
the State and organized labor every- 
where will be requested also to lend 
a helping hand. 

The pamphlet, which is one of 
the features of the elaborate pro- 
gramme the new Labor Commis- 
sioner, John T. Fitzpatrick, has pre- 
pared to boost Missouri as a pros- 
perous, thriving commonwealth, will 
contain a brief history of every busi- 
ness, commercial, industrial and finan- 
cial organization in Missouri, re- 
late what each has done and is doing 
to develop the State and give the 
names and addresses of their 1912 and 
1913 officers. 



The president and secretary of each 
will be invited to contribute a short 
article on the resources and oppor- 
tunities of their community and what 
industries are needed and would pros- 
per in their locality. 

Minerals to Be Discussed. 

In addition to exploiting the manu- 
facturing and agriculture possibilities 
of Missouri, the "Booster Pamphlet"' 
will tell, in detail, of the almost in- 
exhaustible supply of unmined lead, 
zinc, iron, fire clay, white sand, kaolin 
and paint pigments, unquarried lime- 
stone for cement making, granite, 
marble, onyx and building stone in 
South Alissouri and of the fields of 
coal in the northern half of the State.. 

The dairying and fruit-growing pos- 
sibilities of the Ozarks will receive 
particular attention, and it is to be 
emphasized that the counties of the 
southeast corner produce, in abun- 
dance, a specie of cotton which ranks 
in worth next to the famous Sea 
Island variety of Florida, Georgia and 
the Carolinas. 

No particular section of Missouri 
is to be boomed, but, instead, the 
State is to be taken up, county by 
county, in alphabetical order, and 
what is grown, manufactured and 
mined in each told about in a com-' 
plete but concise manner, and infor- 



(6) 



Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1913. 
Jefferson City, Missouri. 



mation as to what rivers and streams 
it contains and what railroads traverse 
it, imparted. 

For each county there is to be a 
map in colors, giving, beside the 
names and locations of the cities and 
towns, the rivers and streams, rail- 
roads and all township divisions. Par- 
ticulars as to population, public and 
private schools, churches, roads, va- 
rieties of timber which flourish, the 
nature of the soil, the price and 
iquantity of available farming land, 
loanking and other financial facilities, 
assessed value of real estate and per- 
sonal property and the quantity and 
value of surplus products for 1912, 
will make up j:hapters of the publi- 
cation. 

Commercial Clubs Active. 

The Business Men's League and 
similar organizations of St. Louis, 
the Board of Trade, Manufac- 
turers' Association and all kindred 
bodies of Kansas City, the various 
business associations of St. Joseph, 
Springfield, Joplin, Sedalia, Carthage, 
Webb City, Moberly, Jeflferson City, 
and, in fact, of every city and town in 
tlie State, are to be asked to assist 
in carrying out the booster pro- 
gramme of the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics. 

The contents of the boosting pam- 
phlet are to be of such a nature that 
the publication can be used to adver- 
tise Missouri at the coming Panama- 
Pacific Exposition. The task of col- 
lecting the information and preparing 
it for the special publication has been 
commenced by Supervisor of Statis- 
tics A. T. Edmonston and Deputies 
H. P. Reeds and J. L. Bradley. 

It will contain a complete direc- 
tory of the co:nmercial, financial, in- 
dustrial and farmers' organizations of 
•the State and a history of the prog- 



ress of Missouri, not alone for the 
year 1912, but during the last decade. 
The first edition will be 25,000, with 
more to follow as the demand re- 
quires. A special edition will be run 
ofif for free distribution at the Mis- 
souri State Fair in Sedalia early in 
October. 

The intention is to scatter the pam- 
phlets from one end of the country 
to the other. Pamphlets which fol- 
low will deal with "Organized Lalaor, 
Missouri, 1912-13;" "Missouri Labor 
Laws" and "Missouri State Free Em- 
ployment Department, 1912-13." All 
form chapters of the "Missouri Red 
Book, 1913," which will be ready for 
free distribution at the close of the 
year. 



(From the Sedalia Democrat, July 27, 1913.) 

*'BOOST MISSOURI.'' 



THIS IS THE SLOGAN THAT 
NOW IS HEARD THROUGH- 
OUT COMMONWEALTH. 



STATE TO BE WELL ADVERTISED 



Bureau of Labor Statistics Will Get 

Out a Pamphlet in Three Editions 

That Will Be Sent to All 

Quarters of the Globe. 



Special to the Democrat. 

Jefiferson City, Mo., July 26. — The 
commercial, industrial, farmers' alli- 
ances and labor organizations of the 
State have taken hold of the move- 
ment to "boost Missouri" with such 
vim and enthusiasm that success is 
already assured for the proposition. 
The resources, advantages and oppor- 
tunities the State offers capitalists, 
manufacturers and desirable settlers 
are being exploited as never was the 
case before, from every city and town 
of Missouri. 



"Boost Missouri." 
Progress of a Popular Movement. 



Commissioner John T. Fitzpatrick 
announced today that the Missouri 
Booster Pamphlet the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics is working on and 
will scatter far and wide to advertise 
the State "will be made up of three 
•editions, the first of which, 25,000 
copies, is to appear and be distributed 
in September. 

Three Editions Promised. 

The forms are to be left standing, 
the publication, which will have 300 
pages, brought up to date, revisions of 
other kinds made and the second edi- 
tion, another of 25,000 copies, issued 
next July. The third edition will be for 
the use of the Missouri Panama- 
Pacific Exposition Commission in I9i5> 
and also for distribution everywhere. 
The contents 'of the "booster" pam- 
phlet will undergo another revision 
and many additions made. A small map 
of Missouri will be replaced by a 
larger one, measuring 24x30 inches, 
in colors. The Forty-eighth General 
Assembly will be asked to appropri- 
ate enough to pay for 250,000 copies, 
all in red cloth binding, and for send- 
ing out 100,000 of this edition, by 
mail, to men and women interested in 
the development of Missouri, who 
■cannot attend the San Francisco ex- 
position. 

A. N. Lindsay of Clinton, Mo., gen- 
eral secretary of the Federation of 
Missouri Commercial Clubs, has of- 
fered the Bureau of Labor Statistics 
his aid and that of that organization, 
which is composed of all commer- 
cial and industrial clubs of the State, 
in collecting the information needed 
for the "booster" bulletin and secur- 
ing the county maps. 

One of the features of the publica- 
tion will be a group photograph of the 
officers and executive committee of 
the Federation of Missouri Com- 



mercial Clubs, consisting of William 
Hirth, Columbia, president; James A. 
Houchin, vice-president, Jefferson 
City; A. N. Lindsay, secretary', Clin- 
ton; A. W. Douglas, chairman execu- 
tive committee, St. Louis; J. R. 
Lowell, chairman press committee, 
Moberly, the executive committee — 
George A. Mahan, attorney at law, 
Hannibal; W. E. Cundiff, business 
manager The Ruralist, Kansas City; 
B. H. Bonfoey, real estate and insur- 
ance, Unionville; C. W. Flower of 
Flower-Barnett Dry Goods Co., Se- 
dalia; W. B. Sanford, Holland Bank- 
ing Co., Springfield; A. W. Douglas, 
vice-president Simmons Hardware 
Co., St. Louis; R. H. Stockton, St. 
Louis; F. W. Fleming, president 
Kansas City Life Insurance Co., 
Kansas City; William E. Spratt, real 
estate (formerly mayor), St. Joseph; 
A. H. Hinchey, secretary. Commercial 
Club, Cape Girardeau; James P. Kem, 
clothier, Macon; J. A. Hudson, presi- 
dent Columbia Telephone Co., Colum- 
bia; Thomas C. Hackney, attorney 
at law, Carthage; and William Hirth, 
publisher Missouri Farmer, Columbia. 

First to Respond. 

One of the first business organiza- 
tions in Missouri to respond to the 
call of the Bureau of Labor Statistics 
for aid in securing information for 
the "booster" bulletin was the Tarkio 
Commercial Club of Tarkio, Mo. The 
president, W. R. Littell, wrote the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics to have 
the best possible map of Atchison 
county made for the "booster" pam- 
phlet, saying his organization would 
pay for it. 

Austin Crenshaw of Fulton, Mo., 
sent word that the commercial club 
of his city was heart and soul in the 
Missouri "booster" movement and 
that organization would look after 



Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1913. 
Jeiferson City, Missouri. 



the interest of Callaway county. Since 
then the following business associa- 
tions have promised their support: 

Business Men's League of St. 
Louis, through its secretary, William 
Llewellyn Saunders; the Commercial 
Club of Kansas City, through its sec- 
retary, E. M. Clendening; the "Grind- 
ers" of Kansas City, which is an aux- 
iliary of the f^our millers; Sarcoxie 
Horticultural Association of Sarcoxie, 
through its secretary, J. F. Wagner; 
Clinton Commercial Club, W. A. 
Docherty, secretary; Farmers' Edu- 
cational and Co-operative Union of 
Cuba, J. F. Mitchell, secretary; Jack- 
son Township Good Roads Associa- 
tion of Kinsey, Ste. Genevieve coun- 
ty. Smith McClanahan, secretary- 
treasurer; Riverside local. Farmers' 
Educational and Co-operative Associ- 
ation of SteelviUe, F. E. Shuck, secre- 
tary; Farmers and Fruit Growers' 
Association of Neosho, Albert Hilles, 
secretary-treasurer ; Caruthersville 

Commercial Club, J. P. Lloyd, secre- 
tary, and John Parks, treasurer; 
Aroma Fruit Growers and Shippers' 
Association of Newtort county, E. E. 
Gay wood, secretary; the Neosho Fruit 
Growers and Shippers' Association, J. 
H. Christian, secretary; Seneca Straw- 
berry Association, T. G. Snyton, sec- 
retary; Lebanon Commercial Club, 
H. A. Clark, secretary; Kinloch Park 
Improvement Association of St. Louis 
county, J. G. Dochweiler, secretary; 
Citizens' Improvement Association of 
St. Charles, Asmund Haessler, secre- 
tary; Humansville Commercial Club 
of Vo\Y county, J. M. Allen, secretary, 
and William McCracken, treasurer; 
Rolla Civic Club, Mrs. Jennie Har- 
rison, secretary, and Mrs. H. R. Mc- 
Craw, treasurer; Sedalia Boosters' 
Club of Pettis county, M. V. Carroll, 
secretary, and C. C. Evans, treasurer; 
Western Towing Club of St. Louis, 



George A. Minges, secretary; Com- 
mercial Club of Joplin, F. L. Yale, 
secretary; Missouri Athletic Club of 
St. Louis, E. W. Barnmueller, secre- 
tary; Commercial Club of Cape Gi- 
rardeau, A. A. Hinchey, secretary; 
Carthage Business Men's League,. 
Harry L. Marks, secretary, and W. F, 
Moring, treasurer; Bethany Commer- 
cial Club, B. P. Sifler, secretary; St. 
Louis Real Estate Exchange, John J. 
Dowling, secretary, and W. E. Caul- 
field, treasurer; Merchants' Exchange 
of St. Louis, Eugene Smith, secre- 
tary; Butler Commercial Club, A. H.. 
Culver, secretary, and H. M. Cannon,, 
president; St. Louis County Farm and 
Market Bureau, John G. Rinkel, sec- 
retary; St. Louis Association of 
Credit Men, C. P. Welsh, secretary; 
Stone County Booster Club of Crane,. 
B. F. Carney, secretary and treas- 
urer; Stoddard County Farmers' Edu- 
cational and Co-operative Union of 
Dexter, W. J. Vaughn, secretary; 
Agricultural and Commercial club of 
Wright City, A. B. Keadle, secretary; 
Lumber Dealers' Association of St. 
Louis, O. A. Fier, secretary, and the 
Phelps County Agricultural Society. 
These organizations will assist in 
distributing widely the "booster" 
pamphlet, and the secretary and pres- 
ident of each will contribute brief 
articles dealing with the advantages 
and inducements their county offers 
capitalists, manufacturers and set- 
tlers. 

Suggestions Made Use Of. 

Men and women all over the State 
have offered their services and are 
suggesting chapters for the publica- 
tion. Commissioner Fitzpatrick has 
detailed Supervisor of Statistics A. T. 
Edmonston to prepare the pamphlet 
for the printer. Deputies H. P. Reeds 
and John L. Bradley are assisting in 



"Call of the Farm." 
AgHcultural Possibilities of Missouri. 



the task of gathering and compiling 
the information which is needed. 

W. E. Cundiff of Kansas City, a 
member of the executive committee 
of the Federation of Commercial 
Clubs, has contributed an interesting 



article on "Missouri as an Agricul- 
tural State." The railroads of tne 
State are supplying the illustrations 
which are to be used to vividly por- 
tray the advantages, resources and 
possibilities of Missouri. 



CALL OF THE FARM/' 



(A Revised Republication.) 



WHAT MISSOURI HAS TO OFFER TO AGRICULTURAL SETTLERS 
AS SEEN FROM THREE DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW. 



With agricultural pursuits offering the best inducements for a familj' of 
moderate means and all large cities filled to the overflowing with men and 
women who would prosper on farms, if they devote the same energy and time 
to tilling the soil they do to earning a bare living, the liack-to-the-farm move- 
ment has recently received a fresh stimulus through contemplated National 
Government aid. 

For Missouri the back-to-the-farm movement will now not end until every 
available acre of desirable unimproved land has been taken up for cultivation. 
The National Government announced that it would publish and distribute 
among aliens and others in the industrial centers of the United States a 
pamphlet setting forth briefly and in a general way the opportunities offered 
to agricultural settlers bj- the various states and territories. 

■ Missouri was called upon by the Washington authorities to furnish a 
brief but complete outline on what it had to ofifer homeseekers. Various 
state departments and many men and women in ])rivate life became interested. 
The contest immediately awakened much enthusiasm, and keen but friendly 
rivalry for first honors, ensued. 

Many interesting and highly meritorious articles were submitted, and of 
all there was not one which was not entitled to fair mention, each handling the 
subject, "The Agricultural Possibilities of Missouri," skillfully from a different 
viewpoint. The contribution offered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics was 
selected finally as the one for the national pulilication already mentioned, 
chiefly for the reason that it completely covered the State, it brieflj' reciting 
what inducements each section offers in improved and imimproved lands; what 
agricultural products are giving the best returns and how Missouri farms 
worth $3,000 and $4,000 were earning larger incomes than many worth more 
money in other states. 

Two other articles submitted were so meritorious that it was found im- 
possible to decide between them as to which was entitled to second place. 
Therefore both were awarded that honor, a high one, considering the keen 
rivalry the contest aroused and that every contribution proved to be a gem 
and entitled to weighty consideration. 



10 Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1913. 

Jefferson City, Missouri. 

In a treatise on "Opportunities in Missouri for Agricultural Settlers," 
Prof. F. B. JMumford, Dean of the State Agricultural College at Columbia, paid 
a splendid tribute to Missouri as a corn state, emphasizing that the largest 
nursery of the world is found here and asserting that in a good fruit year 
the apple production of Missouri excels that of many other great apple 
states. 

The third contribution, one by Hon. W. L. Xelson, assistant secretary 
of the State Board of Agriculture, consists of a general treatise on the pro- 
ductiveness of Missouri, listing tersely the many advantages and inducements 
the State holds out to agricultural settlers and reciting in a clean-cut manner 
our annual farm achievements. 

■The three leading contributions on the "Agricultural Possibilities of 
IMissouri" follow: 



AGRICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES OF MISSOURI. 

(By the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jeffer.son City, Mo.) 

While Missouri now ranks high as an agricultural State, holding third 
position for its annual production of corn and, usually, seventh for wheat, 
there are practically no limits to the possibilities of agricultural development. 

The fact that this commonwealth already is one of the chief corn and 
wheat producers of the United States, coupled with the further fact that only 
a little over a half of our extensive area suitable for agricultural purposes is 
under cultivation, clearly demonstrates what could be done with ordinary 
farming" alone if every available acre was tilled. 

If every available acre of land in ^Missouri, suitable for cultivation, was 
properly tilled, our annual outp,ut of corn, wheat, oats, hay and similar staples 
would increase over sixty per cent, without taking into consideration the 
gains in the production of vegetables, fruit, dairy products, live stock, honey, 
wool and all other farm commodities which, in consequence, would naturally 
also follow. 

This estimated increase does not take into consideration what could be 
accomplished by scientific and intensive farming. Comparatively few Mis- 
souri farms are now being worked for all their soils can produce and renew- 
ing the land with fertilizers is by no means a general practice. 

What Missouri could do if it was divided up into small farms, ranging 
from 40 to 100 acres, and each worked intensely, would almost be beyond 
belief to anyone who has never cultivated on a scientific scale. It is conserva- 
tive to state that the annual yield of all agricultural products would increase 
thirty per cent for the lands now being tilled, without including or consider- 
ing the unimproved but desirable tracts which are open and ready for settle- 
ment. 

Missouri Has Many Farms. 

In Missouri there are probably 43,985,280 acres of land. Of this vast 
amount 34,591,248 acres make up the 277,244 farms the State is credited with, 



"Call of the Farm." 11 

Agricultural Possibilities of Missouri. 

but still only 24,581,186 acres are under actual cultivation, leaving about 
10,010,062 acres in the farms either entirely unworked or used only for rough 
grazing purposes. Adding this latter large acreage to the other 4,000,000 
acres which are entirely unsettled, it means that Missouri has approximately 
15,000,000 acres entirely uncultivated, or live-eighths as much as the area now 
being tilled, which gives the State third rank in corn and, usually, seventh 
in wheat. 

Of this unimproved area 3,500,000 acres arc low lands, which are so fer- 
tile that many stretches can be made to produce from 75 to 100 bushels of corn 
or from 30 to 40 bushcU of wheat to the acre. For vegetables the soil is 
unexcelled and, if properly tilled, ten acres will earn a good living for a truck 
farmer. This bottom land, chiefly in Southeast Missouri, where the loam is 
from 30 to 100 feet in depth, can be purchased for from $10 to $60 an acre, 
according to its location and other conditions. Of course, all of the lower 
price areas are entirely unimproved and in many cases covered with more 
or less timber, and some distance from a railroad. This is the land around 
which levees are now being built and huge ditches dug to furnish drainage 
in the rainy season. Here is where cotton, watermelons and alfalfa grow 
prolifically and yield a paying return to the owner of the average farm of 125 
acres. The proportion of the cost of a levee and a ditch is generally paid 
for in installments in two or three years, and then comes the period when 
money accumulates. The timber on most of these unimproved areas will gen- 
erally pay for the clearing. 

In North Missouri improved land can be purchased for $60 an acre and 
up. Here is where wheat, oats, blue grass and clover grow luxuriantly, with 
the consuming markets, Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago, close at hand. 
Potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables are easily raised and 
readily sold for a high price without much of an efifort on the part of the 
producer. 

Missouri Farms Earn More Money. 

In Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and other eastern states the same kind of farms 
as those just described arc worth from $100 to $200 per acre, and they have 
no better or higher price markets to supply; with the additional drawback 
that the greater worth there of the lands gives the average agriculturist a very 
low income on the large amount of money he has invested. It is therefore 
apparent that with the same capital and expenditure of the same amount of 
muscular energy more money can be made by farming in Missouri. 

y\.n eastern farmer with land worth $6,000, on which there is a $2,000 
mortgage, does not earn as much from his toil as does the Missouri tiller of 
the soil who values his property at only $3,500, but all paid up. The point of 
such a comparison is obviously plain. The eastern farmer would do far better 
if he sold his mortgaged property, emigrated to Missouri and purchased a 
$4,000 farm, paying for it in cash. In two years, under ordinary conditions, 
he would have a snug bank account and no more interest to meet or pay- 
ments on encumbrances to make. 

While cotton, watermelon and alfalfa growers are making satisfactory- 
profits in Southeast Missouri, horticulturists in and around Howell, Oregon,. 



12 Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1913. 

Jefferson City, Missouri. 

Greene, Laclede, Barry and McDonald counties, at the other end of the State, 
are earning good returns from peaches, strawberries, cantaloupes, pears, grapes 
and other fruit. Around Henry county broom corn and flaxseed are bringing 
in thousands of dollars annually to the farmers who make a specialty of them. 
In Platte, Chariton and Schu5der counties exclusive attention is being given 
by many to tobacco, and the growers of the weed are being well paid for 
their toil. 

Potatoes can be grown profitably nearly everywhere in Missouri, but as 
yet onl}' the farmers of Ray, St. Louis and Jackson counties devote the most 
of their energy to this farm line. While the annual crop of tubers of Mis- 
souri may seem large, the yield never has been sufificient enough to supply the 
home demand the year around. That there is money to be made in this State 
by raising potatoes the growers of the Orrick district in Ray county long ago 
discovered and that is why, year after year, they continue to devote themselves 
almost exclusively to producing this commodity. 

Around St. Louis there are many truck farmers who derive good yearly 
incomes from stretches of land containing from ten to twenty acres. They 
devote themselves chiefl}^ to vegetables and aim every spring to have their 
output ripe and ready for the market ahead of their neighbors. About half 
succeed, reaping in return a reward in shape of a fancy price for early toma- 
toes, stravi^berries, lettuce, radishes and similar spring varieties. Every county 
in the State seriously needs this class of agriculturists. There is no danger, 
for years to come, of any section of Missouri securing too many gardeners. 
Vegetables are in constant demand the year around in Kansas City, St. Joseph, 
St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Memphis and other places which have become 
markets for Missouri products, generally at a fancy high price, with seldom 
the danger that overstocking will occur. 

Missouri Poultry Products. 

Dairying and poultry raising, which a few years ago were considered 
side issues in Missouri, are now absolutely necessary adjuncts to every 
farm by reason of the constantly growing demand for these products. Es- 
pecially is this true of the latter industry. The poultry and eggs of this State 
which were marketed during the year 1912 sold for $45,000,000 in round num- 
bers. The entire production, including home consumption, during these twelve 
months was valued at $75,000,000. These figures may seem to be excessive, 
but it must not be lost sight of that Missouri poultry and eggs are being 
shipped to New York, Philadelphia and Boston. 

With all unimproved lands still remaining for settlement taken up, the 
annual poultry industry will quicklj^ reach the $100,000,000 mark. This is some 
of the wealth which is in store for the settlers who hasten here early, purchase 
a farm on the installment plan and busy themselves producing the commodities 
for which Missouri already has a national reputation. 

The corn crop of 1910 of the 114 counties of the State amounted to 
273,900,000 bushels, according to the figures of the Department of Agriculture. 
At the low price of forty-four cents a bushel this enormous yield was worth 
$120,516,000. It must not be forgotten that this wSs only the production of 
half of the area of Missouri which is so well adapted for this cereal. With this 



"Call of the Farm." 13 

Agricultural Possibilities of Missouri. 

large yield in viev^ for only a limited section, it is an easy matter to conclude 
that if all of the farm lands of the State were under cultivation the yield of 
maize — without intense or scientific farming — would be enough to give this 
State first rank for this grain. 

Missouri as a Wheat State. 

The 191 1 production of wheat for Missouri was nearly 30,000,000 bushels, 
but as large as this yield is, it is only about enough to provide bread for our 
own population until the next crop is harvested. There still is room enough 
here to double this production, and the surplus could easily be sold in the 
cotton regions directly south of this State. 

Recent experiments have shown that an average sixty-acre ^lissouri farm,, 
valued at $3,000, if it is run along scientific lines, is equal in producing power 
to a i20-acre farm in other states, valued at $10,000, which is being cultivated 
in the ordinary way. In two years, if the proper care is exercised, such a Mis- 
souri farm pays for itself. Wheat and corn can be raised, but strawberries, 
potatoes and tomatoes will be found to be good revenue producers, with poul- 
try and eggs as profitable side lines. 

Stock Raising in the Ozarks. 

For s'tock raising and dairying the Ozark counties, as a rule, oflfer induce- 
ments which cannot be excelled by any other state in the Union, considering 
everything. These lines, together with certain fruits, will insure a regular 
income to any settler with a small capital to commence on. Land in this 
portion of IMissouri can be purchased for from $10 to $40 an acre, according 
to the location and improvements. Railroads which are now in existence and 
branch lines which are to be built furnish the markets in St. Louis and Kansas 
City. This is the coming part of Missouri, especially for dairying and stock 
raising. Most of the year cattle, hogs, sheep and goats find their own food 
and need very little attention. There is plenty of good water everywhere, with 
no danger at any time of the supply becoming exhausted. The annual rain- 
fall here is from forty to fifty inches. In North Missouri it is from thirty to 
forty inches. 

Missouri has the soil and climate for any commodity which can be raised 
anywhere in the temperate zone and never has, in its whole career as a State, 
ever known a complete crop failure for anything its farmers generally raise. 
No drouth, no matter how extensive, has ever extended all over the State. 
The rainfalls always furnish enough water to amply feed the hundreds of 
rivers, streams and creeks which have sources of supply in the springs of the 
Ozarks. 

While the possibilities of this State in raising oats, barley, buckwheat, pop 
corn, tobacco, cowpeas, rye, alfalfa and many other farm staples have not been 
fully touched upon in this article, the same increased production is ahead for 
each, as is predicted for wheat and corn, when Missouri, which now holds 
sixth rank for population, is as thickly settled as its resources and advantages 
show it ought to be. Even corncobs, which in other states are considered 
valueless and are burned to rid the farm of them, are eagerly grabbed up at 



14 Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1913. 

Jeiferson City, Missouri. 

a fair price by pipe manufacturers and turned into a commodity known the 
world over as "Missouri Meerschaum Pipes." So much for Missouri. This 
is probably the true explanation of why the average native of this State, when 
anyone from elsewhere extols his own commonwealth and attempts to elevate 
it above ours, simply says: 

"Well, I'm from Missouri, you'll have to show me!" 

A. T. E. 



OPPORTUNITIES IN MISSOURI FOR AGRICUL- 
TURAL SETTLERS. 

(By Prof. F. B. Mumford, Dean State Agricultural College, Columbia, Mo.) 

The highest priced agricultural land in America is located in the corn belt. 
The reason for this is that the area in which Indian corn may be grown suc- 
cessfully is limited. Not only in America, but the area of land suitable for 
growing Indian corn in the world outside of the United States is very small. 
Sir John B. Lawes once said that Europe could never hope to compete with 
America in agriculture, because of the ease with which corn may be grown 
in this country. 

Missouri lies in the center of the American corn belt; there a^e no corn 
lands superior to those found in Missouri. One man in Missouri grows more 
corn each year on his farm than is grown in the nine states of Utah, Oregon, 
Washington, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Rhode Island, Wyoming and Nevada 
combined. Three counties in Missouri grow more corn than nineteen other 
states, in which are included all of New England. These three counties grow 
more corn than is reported for the state of New York, or Maryland or West 
Virginia. Missouri grows three times as much corn as all of South America, 
three-fifths as. much as all of Europe, and nearly one-half as much as is pro- 
duced in the whole world outside of the United States. 

The value of the corn crop in Missouri each year amounts to more than 
$100,000,000. Her wheat crop is valued at $30,000,000. Missouri is also one 
of the leading hay and forage states. In 1909 the hay crop alone for the State 
was valued at over $30,000,000. This does not include the vast areas of blue 
grass, clover and timothy pastures wdiich in point of extent and quality are 
not exceeded by any state in the Union. 

The above facts are evidence of the abundant resources and high state of 
fertility of Missouri lands. In Missouri land is today cheaper, considering its 
intrinsic value, than in any of the corn belt states. Good corn land, which has 
already become scarce and so much in demand that it sells in some localities 
at $250 per acre, is still to be had in Missouri for less than $100 an acre. 

Of all the corn belt states, Missouri has more imoccupied land than any 
other. Twenty million acres are unimproved. Large areas of this land need 
only the intelligent skill of the husbandman to add million's of dollars to the 
total agricultural revenue of the State. Much of this land is peculiarly 
adapted to the production of high class fruits. Larger areas can be made into 
productive and profitable pastures for cattle, sheep and horses. Some of the 



"Call of the Farm." 15 

Agricultural Possibilities of Missouri. 

Ijind adapted for grazing purposes can be purchased from three to ten dollars 
per acre. 

Missouri has more apple trees than any other state in the Union. She has 
the largest orchard in the world. In good fruit years the total apple product 
of Missouri exceeds that of many of the great apple states. 

In the production of live stock Missouri has always rivaled adjoining 
states which are more generally given to grain farming. More than one billion 
dollars is invested in farms, buildings and equipment for carrying on the 
business of stock farming in this State. While Missouri is not generally 
regarded as a sheep-producing State, it is nevertheless true that she has more 
sheep than any adjoining state. The poultry products of Missouri are greater 
than that of any other American state. 

Another reason for the remarkable productive power of Missouri crops 
and live stock is due to the favorable climate. Missouri is far enough north 
to escape, the enervating heat of the south and far enough south to avoid the 
rigorous climate of the north. The Missouri farmer pastures his animals eight 
or nine months in the year, and requires little expensive shelter for the mild 
winters. The rainfall is abundant and well distributed, and hot winds are 
iinknown. 

The State of ]Missouri maintains for the aid of the prospective settler an 
Agricultural Experiment Station, which is organized for the purpose of solving 
new agricultural problems and giving advice to all farmers in the State; out- 
lying experiment fields in twenty localities are solving the local problems due 
to special soils or particular locations. The State of Missouri has, through 
the Agricultural Experiment Station, demonstrated the efficacy of the serum 
treatment for hog cholera and is inoculating at the present time more than 
10,000 hogs per month. 

The Missouri State Board of Agriculture is organized to aid the farmers 
of the State, by means of farmers' institutes, veterinary sanitation, thus safe- 
guarding the health of IMissouri live stock, and through its Highway Depart- 
ment, to encourage the construction and maintenance of country roads. This 
excellent organization appointed by the Governor has contributed largely to 
the development of the State. 

The State Board of Horticulture likewise has accomplished through pub- 
lications and public meetings great service to the horticultural interests of 
Missouri. 

The State Poultry Board has contributed largely to the pre-eminent posi- 
tion of the State in aiding the poultry interests by publications, poultry shows, 
and more recently in the development of a poultry station. 

The organized government of the State is through these various agencies 
protecting and aiding the agricultural citizens of the State. Probably no state 
in the United States has a more excellent series of state boards appointed by 
the Governor primarily for the development of the agricultural, horticultural 
and live stock interests of the State. 



16 Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1913. 

Jefferson City, Missouri. 



GENERAL TREATISE ON THE AGRICULTURAL 
POSSIBILITIES OF MISSOURI; ITS INDUCE- 
MENTS AND THE ANNUAL ACHIEVE- 
MENTS OF ITS FARMS. 



(By Hon. W. L. Nelson, Assistant Secretary State Board of Agriculture, Columbia, Mo.) 

Missouri, midway between the geographical and population centers of 
the United States, is the center of the agricultural universe. She is neither a 
northern, southern, eastern nor western state — nor is she all these. Her south- 
ern border is farther south than Virginia, and her northern border farther 
north than Kansas, yet she excels the former in cotton and the latter in corn. 

One Missouri county produces a million bushels of wheat in a year; 
another a quarter thousand carloads of strawberries; another as many carloads 
of peaches; another a thousand carloads of watermelons. A crop of a million 
dollars worth of corn, averaging the 114 counties of the State, is annually 
credited to each county, and the corn yield in only one-half the counties in the 
State eciuals the total corn crop of one-half the total number of states and 
territories in the Union — so varied and so splendid are Missouri's agricultural 
resources. Missouri is a great corn State, yet her glory is not alone in the 
golden grain. She occupies a prominent place in the production of practically 
every temperate zone crop that counts. 

Missouri is not a one-crop State. If opportunity is not recognized as 
knocking at each farmhouse door every day it is becatise she appears in so 
many forms. 

It matters not from what other state the prospective settler may come, 
or what method of farming he may prefer to pursue, he will find growing in 
Missouri crops with which he is familiar and conditions conducive to comfort 
and contentment. Here are well-improved farms with modern residences, big 
barns and broad acres of blue grass and grain; here are aristocratic repre- 
sentatives of the live stock world — horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, bred in 
the purple and adding to the plenty of a prosperous and progressive people. 
Here, too, is the Missouri mtile, the pack horse of the pioneer and the never 
displaced motive power of the most advanced civilization. 

In Missouri scientific farming, backed by brains and encouraged by 
capital, has attained a place worthy of the highest efforts of the best equipped 
agriculturists — of those who would escape the hardships of the pioneer, for in 
Missouri the days of pioneering are in the past. 

But the days of opportunity are in the present. Hundreds of thousands of 
virgin forests await the woodman's axe; as many acres are as yet "unprofaned 
by the plow," and with dredge and ditch a vast empire, richer than the far- 
famed valley of the Nile, is being developed almost as if by magic. Here, for 
the man of paucity of purse, is opportunity without oppression; opportunity 



"Call of the Farm:' 
Agricultural Possibilities of Missouri. 



17 



where are churches, schools, transportation facilities and comforts of civiliza- 
tion, and where no greedy corporations control. Here the settler's children 
can romp on blue grass and drink from springs of cool, sparkling water. 
Nowhere else is desirable land within easy access of great cities with splendid 
markets to be had at such paltry prices. 

In Missouri are no sandy, wind-swept wastes, no abandoned farms. No 
soil-exhausting system of successive seeding to some certain crop has robbed 
the fields of their fertility. The people are not tied by tradition. They live 
in the present and face the future. New methods of farming, bearing the seal 
of approval of the College of Agriculture or Board of Agriculture, readily 
find favor. 

With more miles of navigable river than any other state, and with thou- 
sands of miles of railroads, operated not by one company, but by many, prac- 
tically all working harmoniously with the producers of the State's agricultural 
products, there is heard no talk of a transportation trust. 

No long and severe winters make necessary expensive barns or big feed 
bills for stock. Conditions for dairying, sheep husbandry and poultry raising 
are ideal — Missouri's annual sales of poultry products alone being placed at 
$45,000,000. Immense orchards of big red apples and the purple of vast vine- 
yards tell of plenty and of pleasure. 

Performances, not promises, proclaim Missouri's paramount place in agri- 
cultural possibilities and permanency. 



*'BOOST MISSOURI.' 



— Kansas City Times. 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has gone 
into the wholesale advertising business for 
the State of Missouri. With the sug- 
gestive slogan of "Boost Missouri" it is 
endeavoring to pursuade Missourians to 
advertise the State constantly. 

The slogan appears on all printed matter 
issued by this department, including its 
envelopes, ajid is undoubtedly accomplish- 
ing its intention. 

All bulletins issued by the bureau on 
the resources and advantages the State 
offers bear, in purple letters, half an 
inch high, the words "Boost Missouri." 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has 
asked the "booster clubs" of the State 
to furnish it with county maps for use 
in its forthcoming publication, already 
well advertised, entitled "The Missouri 
Booster Pamphlet." 

Among the future bulletins to be issued 
by Commissioner Fitzpatrick are "Mis- 
souri as a Honey State," "Missouri as a 
Watermelon State," "Missouri as a Cotton 
State," "Missouri, Its Resources and Ad- 
vantages," "Peaches; Fresh, Canned and 
Dried." 

"The latter bulletin does not in any way 
apply to the female population of Missouri, 
although the subject would cover that 
fascinating necessity," the latest bulletin 
of the bureau announces. 

"The State is full of heavenly 'cling* 
peaches, ranging in age from 16 to 30. 



When the 'peaches' marry they are classed 
as 'canned,' being then put away, any- 
way for a time, subject to the death ot 
the husband, or a divorce court decree, 
to again place them on the market as a 
surplus product, but by no means a 'dried 
peach.' 

"Missouri does not rank high for its out- 
put of 'dried' peaches— this referring both 
to the variety which grows on trees and 
those which are classed as 'clinging vines.' 
It does not care to, the inhabitants of the 
State preferring their peaches fresh, but 
occasionally 'dried' peaches are encoun- 
tered and made the best of. 

"With proper treatment the latter variety 
can be made palatable. Old maids may 
be called 'dried' peaches, but old maids 
are scarce in Missouri. 

"Canned peaches have their attractions, 
hut fresh peaches are generally preferred, 
not alone by Missourians, but all over 
the east, north and west, the State ship- 
ping out many carloads during the month 
when they are fully developed and ripe. 
Tasty and appetizing, they attract atten- 
tion everywhere. 

"The skin is the creamy color that makes 
them attractive, and a blushing tint and 
soft downy appearance adds to their 
beauty. 

"All orchards of Missouri produce peaches 
in more or less abundance, but the 
Elberta variety chiefly come from Oregon, 
Howell and other Ozark counties." 



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Bureau of Labor- Statistics, 191. 
Jefferson City, Missouri. 



STATE FREE EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT 

OF MISSOURI. 



Gratuitous Service Given to All — Farm Help 
and Timbermen Supplied. 

Missouri maintains a free employment de- 
partment as a part of the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics — offices in St. Louis, Kansas City 
and St. Joseph — with a view of keeping the 
unemployed in close touch with those needing: 
help of any kind, male or female. The service 
is free of charge, with the only requirement 
that any one out of employment and applying 
for a situation report promptly when work is 
found. Employers are supposed to notify 
when they have filled vacancies. There is no- 
limit to the class of help the Bureau can fur- 
nish, supplying professional men, skilled trade 
workers and any number of men or women 
for positions lower in rank. Special attention 
is given to calls for farm help and timbermen. 
Employers in small towns are also cor- 
dially invited to make free use of the service 
with no cost to them. When in need of help, 
write to the nearest State Free Employment 
Bureau. 

St. Louis — F. J. O'Keefe, Superintendent, 104 North Tenth Street. 

Kansas City — Harvey Osborne, Superintendent, Room 224 New Nelson 
Building. • 

St. Joseph — Geo. J. Kamler, Superintendent, no North Seventh Street. 

Main Office. 

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, 
JNO. T. FITZPATRICK, Commissioner, 

A. T. EDMONSTON, Supervisor of Statistics, 

H. P. REEDS Deputy Commissioners J. L. BRx\DLEY. 

JEFFERSON CITY, MO. 



Send Your 
Requests For HELP 

To the 

NEAREST STATE 

FREE 

EMPLOYMENT 

BUREAU. 



The Service is FREE, 
Make Use of It. 

Write, Wire or 
Telephone. 



Employment Agency Inspection Department . 

MAIN OFFICE, JEFFERSON CITY, MO. 

JNO. T. FITZPATRICK, Commissioner. 

St. Louis — 104 North Tenth Street, Jas. J. Barrett, Assistant Commissioner. 
Kansas City — New Nelson Building, George A. Major, Inspector. 
St. Joseph— 107 North Seventh Street. 



..■i^Y^,\pt -' _". 



WRITE FOR INFORMATION. 

l"or further informa' orning the agricultural possibilities 

souri; location of the lands open for settlement; soil, climate, resources axid 
inducements offered by the counties to homeseekers, and all other facts per- 
taining to the State in general, address: Commissioner Jno. T. Fitzpatrick, 
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jefferson City, Mo. 



NEW MISSOURI CAPITOL BUILDING 
JEFFERSON CITY, MO. 



SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE 

1913 RED BOOK 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

JEFFERSON CITY, MO. 



BOOST MT««OUKI" 



